Laura Packard

Laura Packard is a health policy and health justice advocate, and stage 4 cancer survivor. She founded two non-profits, Health Care Voices and Voices of Health Care Action, to organize adults with serious medical conditions for affordable comprehensive health care. Packard also hosts CareTalk, a weekly consumer call-in live streaming show and podcast, tackling U.S. health care and health insurance questions and topics.

Packard has appeared on MSNBC and local television, print and radio news across the country, her NowThis videos have received over 20 million views, her op eds have appeared in USA Today, US News & World Report and elsewhere, and her story has been covered nationally and internationally in publications from People to Newsweek to the Guardian.

Packard is an award-winning digital consultant by trade, and has worked with non-profits around the country. She is a small business owner at PowerThru, and has spent a decade+ working at the intersection of technology and politics. She can speak from her personal experience on all facets of digital campaigning - from social media to online fundraising, online advocacy to GOTV.

Sub-specialties:

Health care reform, health insurance, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, Inflation Reduction Act, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, prescription drug costs, Medicaid expansion, surprise medical bills, junk insurance, medical debt, birth control contraceptive, reproductive health care, Roe v. Wade, Dobbs v. Jackson, abortion, IVF, vaccination, public health